Bottle.



No. 729,071 v PATENTED MAY 26, 1903.

w. F. HUTGHINSON.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION TILED 00124. 1902.

I0 MODEL.

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ATTORNEY UNITTD STATES iatented May 26, 1903.

PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM F. I'IUTCHINSON, OF NYACK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN E. SHAW, OF FINDERNE, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,071, datedMay 26, 1903.

Application filed October 4, 1902. Serial 110.125.865. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN- SON, of Nyack, Rockland county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles; and the object of my invention is to produce a bottle and cap in which the cap is held to the bottle very securely, so as to render the bottle air-tight, and to provide means by which the cap may be very easily released without the use of a tool, so that it can be lifted from the bottle.

My invention is adapted for fruit-jars, bottles containing effervescent or gaseous liquids, and, in fact, for all packages which are desired to be air-tight and in which it is necessary to provide a simple cap which can be easily manipulated.

A further object of my invention is to produce a bottle-closure which, while being airtight, will be simple and cheap.

To these ends myinvention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a broken side elevation of a fruit-jar embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of another form of bottle, showing my improved closure; and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view illustrating a slightlymodified form of the invention.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the jar 10 is of the usual shape and maybe of any approved construction, except for the peculiar formation of its neck, and it is provided with a cap 11, preferably of glass, although it may be of metal or other material, which cap fits the bottletop and has a depending flange 12, adapted to close down over the neck of the bottle or jar, as the case may be. This flange is preferably recessed on one side, as shown at 12, to provide for the finger grips or projections 14, which are made on the ends of the split locking-ring 14:. This locking-ring is adapted to lie in the circumferential groove 13, which is produced in the exterior of the bottle-neck and which has square shoulders. As will be seen, where this ring engages the groove it is rectangular in cross-section, and its protruding ends 14 are rounded in crosssection.

The split ring is slightly larger than the circumference of the neck, so that normally it will protrude beyond the surface of the bottle-neck; but by pushing the end portions together it may be made to close smoothly into the groove. The protruding ends 14 of the ring are for the purpose of contracting it when necessary, and these ends, while they may be formed into any convenient shape for easy grasping, are preferably bent down essentially parallel with the bottle-neck, as the drawings show, so that they will be out of the way and will not interfere with surrounding objects.

The split ring, above referred to, besides lying in the groove 13 is adapted to engage the shoulder 15 on the inner part of the flange 12, and so when the cap 11 has been placed in position and the ring 14 allowed to expand it will lie partly in the groove 13 and partly in engagement with the shoulder 15, so that the cap issecurely held.

The cap has on the under side a relatively soft strip 16, of cork, rubber, or some other yielding material, which lies between the cap and the top of the bottle or jar, and when the cap is put in place it is done under pressure, and the groove 13 and shoulder 15 are placed with reference to the cap-top, so that the split ring will only engage the shoulder when the part 16 is slightly compressed. Thus a perfectly air-tight joint is efie'cted.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a bottle-neck. 10, provided with a closure which is'like that of the jar 10.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the neck 10 provided with a slightly-modified form of the device, in which the flange 12 has on the inner side a series of circumferential grooves 13, the lower portion of each groove being perpendicular to the bottle-neck, thus making the groove series a sort of ratchet, and for this type the ring 17 is used, which is like the ring 14 already described, except that its exterior surface is shaped to fit the grooves 13. The advantage of this style of fastening is that if the bottle-cap cannot be pressed tightly enough to make the ring engage one of the grooves 13 it will engage another, and so a good joint will be made in any event.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described closure for bottles, jars and similar things, comprising a circumferentially-grooved neck, a cap having a flange fitting over the neck and with a circumferential shoulder on its inner wall, a split ring lying in the groove of the neck and engaging the shoulder of the cap, and means whereby the ring can be compressed and contracted.

2. The herein-described bottle-closure,comprising a neck having a circumferential groove in its exterior Wall, a cap having a flange fitting over the neck and covering the groove, a shoulder on the flange, and a split ring lying in the groove and engaging the shoulder, said ring having protruding ends by which it may be grasped and compressed.

3. The combination of the circumferentially grooved neck, the cap covering the neck-top and overlapping the neck-groove, the said cap having a shoulder oppo'site'the groove, and a split ring lying in the groove and engaging the aforesaid shoulder, the said ring having its ends protruding and bent down so as to lie along the exterior side of the neck.

4. The combination with a bottle having a circumferential groove in its neck, of a flanged cap fitting over the bottle-top, and having a shoulder therein which comes opposite the side wall of the neck, a yielding lining for the cap-top, and a split ring lying in the groove of the neck and engaging the shoulder of the cap, the said ring having protruding ends.

In witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM F. HUTOHINSON.

Witnesses:

W. B. HUTCHINSON, J. G. DUNBAR. 

